Improvement in manufacture of screw-threaded nuts



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Improvement in the Manufacture ofScrew Threaded Nuts.

No.123,823. Patented Feb.'20, 1872.

OHAUNGEY HOLMES GUARD, OF TORONTO, CANADA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MANUFACTURE OF SCREW-THREADED NUTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,823, dated February20, 1872.

SPECIFICATION. I, CHAUNGEY HOLMES GUARD, of the city of Toronto, in thecounty of York, Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, gentle- Iman, have invented certain Improvements in the Manner of MakingBolt-Nuts, of which the following is a specification:

Nature and Objects of the Invention.

My invention relates to an improvement in the manner of makingbolt-nuts; and consists .in casting them upon a mandrel, forming thethread of wire, as hereinafter described. Also, making an indentation inthe said nut for the purpose of looking it, as hereafter described.

Description of the Accompanying Drawing.

Figure 1, sectional elevation. Fig. 2 shows manner of preparing wire.

General Description.

a mold around this wire nut I cast, of iron, brass, or of any suitablematerial, the nut proper, B, the wire nut forming; the thread of it.

It will be understood that, casting the nut in this manner the wirebecomes solid, as it were, with the nut B, and the metal forming aroundthe tie a, removes the possibility of the two separating; but as theWire does not fit the thread on the mandrel so closely, as may be seenin Fig. 1, the whole nut will screw off it when cold, leaving a perfectthread made of the wire a in the nut B.

A nut made in this manner is much cheaper than the ordinary kind, as thestrength is in the thread, consequently the body of the nut need not beso heavy. The fiber of the iron follows the thread instead of crossingit; therefore it becomes almost impossible to strip the thread of mynut.

What I claim as my invention is The method herein described ofmanufacturing' screw-threaded nuts.

City of Toronto, 25th day of September, 1871.

OHAUNOEY HOLMES GUARD.

Witnesses:

DONALD O. RIDoU'r, OLAUD Y. UAYLEY.

